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Originally Posted by speeder
Same. I saw the Rolling Stones every tour from '72 to '89, along with every Led Zep tour and every Who tour and everyone else even remotely worth seeing growing up. I was addicted to rock shows after seeing Sabbath when I was 12 or 13. I would have been 12 or 13 for that first Stones tour.
The funny thing is, I never thought that the Stones were any good live, I love them in the studio, though, with all the help involved. I bought every album for decades. That said, I also think that they should have retired in about 1980 or '82. What they are doing now is pure pathetic. I wouldn't walk across the street to see them for free.
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I understand we are all entitled to an opinion but if you havent seen them since 1989 how could you make that conclusion? I saw them on the 1989 tour. The 2017 tour and 2019 tour were a thousand times better than that 1989 show, even with Bill on bass back then.
Are you basing this on DVDs? Because I have every live DVD they ever put out and all of them from the past 25 years (and of course the older ones) are fantastic (except the crappy concert Scorsese shot) , especially the Hyde Park anniversary show from 2013. The band is tight as ever and not always playing with guitars out of tune like they used to with Mick Taylor.
Geez, im extremely critical of shows, been playing guitar 35 years, consider myself a musician, going to concerts is what I do for fun instead of vacations, and there is hardly anyone (of the classic rock and rollers) i have not seen live and while I was expecting to be very disappointed, I was totally blown away by how good they played and how good they sounded...last 2 stadium shows I saw them, the sound was LOUD and very very clear and detailed. Mick sang as good if not better than ever and everyone played at the level of a true perfectionist, especially Ronnie...wish I could upload my video of Keith singing Happy at the Buffalo show in 2017, you might change your mind
Your opinion sounds like Tabs who puts them down now but hasnt seen them in 40 years
